Example sentences of "have been [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
2 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
3 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
4 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
5 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
6 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
7 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
8 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |
9 | If the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded , Andrewes as Bishop of Ely would have been blown up in the House of Lords together with the King . |
10 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
11 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
12 | So many locations that would before have been snapped up by the professionals will be available to the amateur . |
13 | He should have been put up against a wall and shot , if you ask me , for dereliction of duty . |
14 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
15 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |
16 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
17 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
18 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
19 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
20 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
21 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
22 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
23 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
24 | The accounts suggest that if this trend continues , ‘ the entire investment base of the Diocese will have been used up within the next two years . ’ |
25 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
26 | Canon law , however , gave grounds for supporting that an incompetent king , ‘ rex inutilis ’ , could be required to abdicate , and the articles against the king , which may have been drawn up by the Bishop of Winchester , allege that his ‘ uselessness ’ had brought damage and destruction to the Church , people and realm of England . |
27 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
28 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
29 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
30 | Without Anna for her mother she would have been brought up like an Italian girl of the time , like her aunts . |